Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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British Ambassador to France Sir Gladwyn Jebb asked Mendes outright for an explicit guarantee that he would not abandon EDC in return for Soviet "concessions" on Germany. Mendes evaded the question. Nevertheless, as Mendes boarded his special train to Brussels, Jebb was waiting on the platform with a message brought directly from Sir Winston Churchill, promising British support...
...fashioned diplomacy to win as many friends as you can to your side, and to deny as many as you can to the enemy. Asians like Burma's Premier U Nu want to be friendly with the West, but refuse to join a military pact. Rather than abandon them, or berate them, or wheedle them, the U.S. should seek a separate relationship that involves neither slight to them nor undue soliciting of their favor...
...dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were we to blame?" Most atomic scientists, far closer to the bomb than Joan Hinton, have struggled with this sense of guilt. Joan Hinton's answer was to abandon her profession and her country...
...Moscow, Pravda front-paged an editorial scolding the Communist Party, trade unions and youth organizations for shirking their duty of stamping out God. Children, Pravda complained, are especially vulnerable to these dangerous doctrines. The Literary Gazette complained that farmers in the province of Kirov had recently been allowed to abandon their fields for a three-day religious festival that was "only an excuse for drinking." And the trade-union paper, Trud, demanded that the government close down a spring near Moscow that has been attracting thousands (including even some Soviet bigwigs) to its "healing waters...
...Your love affair [with Mme. de Visconti] has lasted too long," runs a directive to Marshal Berthier. "I have a right to expect that a man . . . whom posterity will always picture at my side, shall no longer abandon himself . . . I want you to get married . . . If you don't, I will never see you again." (Berthier did take a wife, but not Mme. de Visconti...